Regulatory Fine
June 26th, 2015
Global Regulators Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySec) Fines Imposed for Year 2015 and 2016
Hello Markets Seals Partnership Deal with Cantor Exchange
June 23rd, 2015
Hello Markets is pleased to announce that it has successfully sealed a partnership deal with Cantor Exchange (CX) as an Independent Software Vendor and trading-platform provider. Cantor Exchange is a Designated Contract Market offering Binary Options which are regulated ...
Nomura Is Latest Bank to Stop Clearing Swaps as New Rules Bite
May 14th, 2015
Nomura Holdings Inc. will no longer act as a middleman to allow clients to guarantee their swap trades with a clearinghouse, the latest bank to exit the business as new rules increase risks and costs in the $630 trillion ...
NFA orders Memphis, Tenn. firm K&M Trading, LLC and its principals, William Kaelin and John Morrissey, to pay $105,000 fine
April 15th, 2015
National Futures Association (NFA) has ordered K&M Trading, LLC (K&M), William Kaelin and John Morrisseyto pay a $105,000 fine. K&M is an NFA Member commodity trading advisor located in Memphis, Tenn. Kaelin and Morrissey are the only principals and associated persons of the firm. ...
NFA takes emergency enforcement action against Burnet, Texas firm McElhannon Group, Inc.
March 6th, 2015
National Futures Association (NFA) announced today that it has taken an emergency enforcement action against McElhannon Group, Inc. (McElhannon), an NFA Member commodity trading advisor (CTA) located in Burnet, Texas, and Philip Mack Worley (Worley), a principal and associated person (AP) of McElhannon. ...
CFTC charges R2 Capital Group LLC with Fraud and Misappropriation
August 22nd, 2014
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced that on August 15, 2014, Chief Judge Marcia S. Krieger, of the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado, issued a restraining Order freezing the assets of Defendants Ryan Tomazin ...
Institutional Liquidity LLC to pay $225,000 fine
July 30th, 2014
National Futures Association (NFA) has ordered Institutional Liquidity LLC (ILQ), a forex dealer Member of NFA located in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and three of the firm’s principals and registered associated persons — Mark D. Krier (Krier), James D. Pieron ...
NFA’s Board approves prohibition of credit cards to fund retail forex accounts
June 24th, 2014
National Futures Association (NFA) announced that its Board approved a ban on the use of credit cards to fund retail forex and futures accounts. This prohibition is subject to approval by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Although NFA’s proposed ...
The end of the LBMA is nigh
May 20th, 2021
Basel 3 is on course to regulate the LBMA out of existence. And with it will go all the associated arbitrage business and position-taking on Comex, because most bullion bank trading desks will cease to exist. The only ...
